Prof. Yaacov Frishberg was born in Israel and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Following a pediatric residency at the Beilinson Medical Center in Petah-Tikva, he completed a fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the USA. During his fellowship he conducted research in molecular renal immunology.

Upon his return to Israel, he joined the division of Pediatric Nephrology at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Currently, he is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Hebrew University and the Director of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem.

Prof. Yaacov Frishberg main scientific interests are hereditary kidney diseases in children including:  kidney stone disease with special focus on the hyperoxalurias, nephrotic syndromes and mitochondrial cytopathies